No move by Microsoft to share information with its competitors will ever be taken at face value, and certainly yesterday's new Interoperability Principle will come under very close scrutiny. Is this the opening of the floodgates the EC has been demanding?
Read more »Microsoft's latest interoperability pledge: How free is 'open' now?
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Mozilla may hold the clues to the future of commercial open source
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Much is rightly made about the quality of open-source software like JBoss and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. These, however, are arguably not the source of the quality of the businesses behind them. Their networks were/are.
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Adobe Opens Up (A Bit)
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It will come as no surprise to readers of this blog that the old proprietary software companies are finally seeing the light and beginning – some faster, some slower – to open up. Adobe is one such company, and to consolidate its moves it has set up a new site, called simply Adobe Open Source
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Linux growing fast in POS, Microsoft still tops
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In the North American market for POS (point of sales/service) terminals, Linux grew 32 percent year-over-year, according to figures released by IHL Group. The research firm reckons Linux accounted for $475 million of the $5.56 billion market, putting it third overall with an 8.5 percent market share.
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Open-Xchange Offers Lifeline to Zimbra Users
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Open-Xchange Inc., the market-leading independent open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, today announced a special program for Zimbra customers concerns about their investment in light of the pending Microsoft/Yahoo deal.
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Dear RedHat...
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RedHat is one of the most widely used Linux distribution, at least in the corporate and academic sectors. It's been around for years and after all the shit they've gotten from users trapped in RPM "dependency hell," you'd think they'd have learned SOMETHING by now, right?...Right?
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OpenProj: good software, but needs documentation
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OpenProj 1.0 was recently released by Projity, which offers a related commercial product called Project-On-Demand. OpenProj is written in Java and licensed under CPAL 1.0, and versions for Windows, Mac OS/X, and Linux can be downloaded from SourceForge.net.
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Red Hat Competes in Crowded Market
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It’s no surprise that this year’s Datamation Product of the Year Award in the Enterprise Linux category was snagged by Red Hat. The open source pioneer, founded in 1995 (a mere four years after Linus Torvalds released the first Linux kernel) has long been the dominant Linux vendor.
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Attack of the Alternatives, What about Commercial Open Source Software?
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This month’s cover story for VAR Business touts the Attack of the Alternatives. The premise is certain companies are gaining or having success in the shadows of the market leaders because they are offering a greater value then the market giants:
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Specsavers sees clear benefits in open source
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It has become a commonplace perception that the UK is rather unenlightened when it comes to open-source software.
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VMware rains hardware deals on Microsoft's parade
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VMware today inked a quartet of software deals with server giants Dell, Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Fujitsu Siemens. The agreements will infuriate Microsoft which is struggling to get its own virtualisation offering onto the market.
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How do you define ‘commercial open source’?
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Adobe has announced that it is sponsoring the SQLite public domain database engine project by joining Mozilla and Symbian on the SQLite consortium. The news is interesting in that it balances Google’s recent sponsorship of efforts to support Photoshop on Linux, while it also raises an interesting question about Microsoft’s attempt to define commercial open source.
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Linking Open Source to SaaS
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What does Software as a Service (SaaS) have to do with Open Source? Not much, you might think. Or maybe you've noticed that the FSF extended the spanking new GPL3 to the Affero Licence--to deal with SaaS providers? It does not help Open Source Software makers to make more money, so who cares? Well, OSS makers should care, as SaaS may finally give them a business model that may finally bring them some money.
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Red Hat pumps more resources into Thailand
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Red Hat has revamped its strategy here to work more closely with partners, both local and global, putting more resources to focus on Thailand.
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Ubuntu Landscape systems management tool set to launch
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After a six-month beta period, Canonical Ltd. is adding management muscle to Ubuntu Linux servers and desktops in the form of its Landscape systems management tool.
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